Shouyang

Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend.

1937 December 14, “AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINA; Missionaries Not Seen Since Leaving Japanese-Held Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023, page 23

The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies[…]

1974, Current Scene: Developments in Mainland China, volumes 12-13, →OCLC, page 17, column 2

After he had passed the imperial examination in Peking, he acquired the title of jinshi* and was appointed a Hanlin (imperial college) academician by the Qing court. He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province.

1998, Xiao-meng Qin, “The Qin Clan”, in Heartbeats and Heartaches: Memoirs of an Intellectual Family in China, 1stBooks Library, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8